Social policies convey normative assumptions about how households should make ends meet and organise care, but how do these ideals withstand crises such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic? Previous research shows continuity of welfare state models in the crisis, but mostly...

Quality judgments in terms of academic standards of excellence required by external stakeholders such as labour markets and steering hierarchies obviously exert strong pressure on universities. Do they generate an "iron cage" effect imposing a passive and uniform conformity on global standards?...

In this study, I intend to identify a possible way of gaining knowledge on the Romanian religious phenomenon. The scientific approach used for this purpose was the comparative analysis between two methodologies that differ first of all from the point of view of their temporal location: the...

The study analyzes Mises´s approach to the question of apriorism in a broader methodological context. It shows that it is not inevitable to advocate the aprioristic character of economics (resp. science of human action), as Mises does, to maintain the subjectivist-individualist methodology and...

Les développements de ce texte abordent successivement la notion de métaphore, de métonymie et des autres figures de style, dans les rapports que ces figures de style tressent avec les modèles organisationnels, métaphores et références venant conduire à souligner l'importance des...

Plan de l'article :1. Karl Polanyi et la démarche idéal-typique1.1 le problème : penser l'économie en dehors du paradigme de l'échange marchand1.2 L'utilité d'une médiation théorique par les idéaux types1.3 L'exposition du concept1. 4 La distinction conceptuelle public/privé2. Un...